provides a snap-shot of the development performance of each province and benchmarks it to that of other provinces and of nation …

Lebanon to produce demographic and social statistics. In the absence of population censuses, the census of buildings and … dwelling is one of the few sources of comprehensive data and information at the national level. The census that CAS is planning … project. The CAS has requested technical support which will run over the life of the Census, from the initiation of the census …

"Alm, Annez, and Modi review the options for reform of stamp duties on immovable property transfers collected by Indian … implications of lowering stamp duty rates, which need to be understood if reform is to be viable. Evidence indicates that the … collected by other levels of government. So reform could be made a more viable option through appropriately designed …

Bengal with other states in India and attempts to highlight the positive factors, which could be considered for future reform … society, unionized and influential public sector workforce, political sensitivity towards Central Governments reform program … reform and restructuring process. West Bengal had an advantage of learning from the reform and restructuring experience in …

panel data models with country-specific fixed effects. The empirical results show that the most robust growth determinants …

training. They use a panel of large firms with unusually detailed information on the duration of training, the direct costs of …

. This paper shows how dynamic pseudo-panel methods can overcome these difficulties, allowing estimation of non-linear income … Mexico and are compared to panel data estimates from a short rotating panel. The results do find evidence of nonlinearities … in household income dynamics and demonstrate large bias in the panel data estimates. Nevertheless, even after allowing …

and of the flexibility and freedom of its labor market. But estimation of mobility using panel data is biased by the … presence of measurement error and non-random attrition from the panel. This paper shows that dynamic pseudo-panel methods can …-classical measurement errors. These methods are applied to data on earnings from a Mexican quarterly rotating panel. Absolute mobility in …

probability of a crisis are of the expected sign. The panel data set covers the time period 1973 through 2003 for 90 countries …